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74th Year, No. 42 Freeport, N.Y. 11520
The Community Newspaper
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Baldwin businessman Icilied in boat crasli
by Harry Loud, WFD
Baldwin businessman George Canni was killed in a boat crash early Sunday evenirig, October 4, at approximately 7:20 p.m., when his boat struck an island oftof Seamans Neck Park, Seafbrd. Mr. Canni was the owner of A-1 Transmission Service on Sunri.se Highway in Baldwin. «.
Mr. Canni, 65, the boat's operator, was one of three victims killed in this boating accident. The other victims were Theresa Maniaci-Canni, 45, and Jo.seph Sugamele, 50.
Also in the boat were four others, two men and two women, who suffered seri­ous injuries. All were ejected from the craft when it ran aground. .
Known as a cigarette or muscle-style boatT it was said to be a 40-foot Pleasurecraft, and capable of high speeds.
It is not known if speed was a factor
but according to Detective Lt. Kevin
Smith of the, Nas.sau County Police
Department, it will be investigated. He
said the boat came to rest some 100 feet
up into a marsh and out of the channel, (continued on page 3
Meadowbrook Parkway gets anention
by Laura Schofer
The Meadowbrook Parkway, a long and winding road lined with a green caiiopy, is receiving some attention from the state Department of Transportation (DOT) as part of its Scenic Byway Corridor Management Plan (CMP) for Select Historic Long Island Parkways.
Earlier this year, the DOT designated the Meadowbrook Parkway, along with the Wantagh, Loop, Bay, Ocean and Bethpage State Parkways as byways
that are deemed to have outstanding historic and scenic qualities that
should be protected by the state. •
The DOT, in conjunction with an
advisory committee of local stakehold­ers, is creating a corridor management
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plan that will "protect, improve and promote the byways," said Annette Schultz, a consultant from the RBA Group hired by the state to help in'the planning.
Ms. Schultz made opening remarks to committee members who had gath­ered at the Freeport Recreation Center recently to continue their discussion on how to protect and enhance the byways.
"Every one of these [Long Island byways] is different and builds upon Robert Mcses vision of linear parks,"
she said.
An advisory committee, formed last
Spring, is helping to create the plan with the DOT. Local groups involved
in the process include the South Shore Audubon Society, the Long Island
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Greenbelt Trail Conference, The South Shore Estuary Reserve Group and Long Island Traditions.
To date, the advisory committee has recommended that a study be made to reconsider the re-openiiig and mainte­nance of the! dirt path along the Meadowbrook Parkway as well as to consider providing a multi-use trail .along the parkway. They also suggest­ed trying to find fundingto build a .sep­arate bridge for a multi-use trail.
"Meadowbrook Parkway was "designed to be an extension of the
[nearby] parks," said Mark Woods, an
environmental specialist for the DOT'S Scenic Byway.s Program. "These park­ways [including the Meadowbrook] are
highly qualified and eligible for the National Scenic Byways Program and
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other federal grants," he told the advi-.sory committee.
tvls. Schultz added that the group still had to "study and monitor safety issues."
The presentation suggested that the-scenic byways also provide a "unique opportunity to engage, the traveler to understand the cultural history of the South Shore" and to have "proposed interpretive sites to tell the byway story."
In the case of the Meadowbrook
Parkway, Charu Kukreja of the RBA Group said that "waterfront commu­nities and maritime centers such as Freeport could be tied to the byways,"
thus providing additional opportuni­ties for tourism and economic devel­opment as well as promoting conser-
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